Football Quotes · Page 1,018

I'm a basketball player first and foremost. So I want to put basketball above everything else.

— Yuta Watanabe

The Champions League is our obsession, the No. 1 objective for Juventus.

— David Trezeguet

The most important thing is the team. Only then the individual awards arrive.

— Joao Cancelo

Within football we've got this unwritten rule that we're all in this together, we're all one.

— Emile Heskey

“One, two, three, four, we don't want your fuckin' laws of thermodynamics!”

— David Rakoff

You have to know your role and accept it, because that's what is best for the team.

— Xabi Alonso

When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.

— Dan Shaughnessy

My happiness is not going to be driven solely on whether we win a Super Bowl or not.

— Philip Rivers

As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier.…

— Rob Gronkowski

Preparing your tactical formation is essential. Each player needs to know where he has to be, and that is why there needs…

— Louis van Gaal

Integrity, respect, compassion, and fairness become obstacles to people who think winning is everything

— Michael Josephson

When I was promoted to the main squad at Talleres de Remedios de Escalada, I felt my dream had become reality.

— Javier Zanetti

I started playing football when I was ten years old, and the main reason was because I wanted to make my parents…

— Devon Cajuste

Football is a welcome relief, you get to go out and enjoy it and play like you did when you were a…

— Paul Mullin

In Spain, I'd taken Villarreal to league runners-up and the quarter-final and then semi-final of the Champions League.

— Manuel Pellegrini

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

— Clyde Drexler

Mum and Dad used to always follow me and support me, taking me to Newcastle on a Sunday morning after getting up…

— Harry Maguire

While winning may not always personify the Big Apple, attitude certainly does. Players get called to the carpet. So do coaches, managers,…

— Stephen A. Smith

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack…

— Steve Jobs

I don't really think about things too much, but people are going to form impressions about you if you play football, aren't…

— Jimmy Bullard

That's a part of being a good football team and being good players is when it's time to go play and turn…

— Devin McCourty

The game's finest mistakes were perpetrated by Djimi Traore, who interrupted his general competence with one air shot, one slice over his…

— Phil Cornwell

At Under-11/12, I was playing as a right-back. The manager then was Cyril Helstone, and he said to me, 'No, you're not…

— Georginio Wijnaldum

My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I…

— Chris Borland

You might be a player, but I want you to know... I'm the coach.

— Valerie Leal

I am happy even if I am not playing but the team is winning.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

I can go a week without playing and be all right.

— Austin Rivers

When things are tough, French athletes tend to pull out great performances.

— Didier Deschamps

There is always pressure at a big club like PSG. All the matches are important.

— Marco Verratti

I want to make sure I have something I can lean on after football.

— Derrick Henry

Spain always go into a tournament with the idea of performing the best we can.

— Iker Casillas

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.

— Wladimir Klitschko

I'm not a WWE wrestler and that's how it feels sometimes out on the court.

— Liz Cambage

The number one ranked team is playing the number 10 ranked team. That's the reality.

— Dav Whatmore

If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.

— Barbara Jordan

He is the best passer of a ball in the world, and Real's style fits him. (on David Beckham)

— Ryan Giggs

Real Madrid? Any player would like to play for them.

— Andrea Pirlo

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

— Ann Coulter

When you don't win anything, at the end of the day, you cannot say it is a good season.

— David Silva

Every team that's promoted to the Premier League wants to stay, they don't want to go back.

— Kelechi Iheanacho